The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-09-17
NOTES.

"VACATIoNIzERs' is a new word find
ing its way into the newspapers. 1t is
most awkward innovationizer.
Rev. ROBERT SPEARS and party, whose
visit to America we noticed last week,
left Liverpool in the" Circassian, Aug. 26
DR.. F. w. UPHAM, in an article in
Christian Thought, for August speaks OF
MAX MULLER as ga man with a magical
art of popularizing what he does not I'M
derstand."
ONE great secret of the success of the
Salvation Army may be found in the
fact that the circulation of their peri
odicals amounts to nearly 100000
copies per annum. They have now TWEEN
ty-five different War Cries.
Rev. WILLIAM TAYLOR, in his work
"The Model Preacher" says: "Often
when preacher has driven nail in
sure place, instead of clinching it and
securing we'll the advantage, he hammers
away till he breaks the head off, or splits
the board"
The past, sings Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
is good thing to keep out OF, "for it's
highways are depp with malarisl gloom"
But this is rather pessimistic for poet.
There are some good things about the
past and things which it is pleasant to
remember.
THE REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, who
preached in and about London during
his vacation, fairly astonished the dron-
ing English church-goers with his rapid
delivery. The queen Commanded" the
distinguished American divine to preach
before her at Windsor.
DEAN BRADLEY, the successor Of STAN
LEY at Westminster, says beautifully:
Gas life moves on and our comrades and
our leaders drop ON this side and that,
and we look back through the mists
of years on those whose friendship or
whose society long since set it's mark
on our own souls, how thankfully do we
recall those whose spontaneous and half
unconscious utterances once rebuked, it
may be, or guided or encouraged or in
spired us; planted in our souls the germ
of thought or the seeds of action"
The Second Adventists have lately
held a conference in Cleveland, occupy
ing vacant lot whereon large number
OF tents were erected. Their services
were held and their business transacted
in these. They denied all the reports
about ascension robes and said: "We
don't pretend to know when our Lord is
coming, but according to prophecy it
must be near at hand. We have no re-
ligious festivals through the year, but we
appoint fast days for special purposes
an6 abstain from food from sunrise to
sunset"
THE deputy Savatier described re-
Gently in Belgian Chamber the increase
of drunkenness in Belgium in startling
figures. While in the last thirty years
the population of the kingdom has in
creased at the ratio of 0.130, the num-
Der of liquor shops has increased at the
ratio of l00,232 Twenty-Five years ago
Belgians drank on an average nine litres
OF brandy year. now they drink thirteen.
There are 100000 persons in Belgium
who drink half litre daily and $4,000
who drink at least one litre, equal to
about pint and three-quarteIs.
THE Rev. DE LANCEY TOWNSEND, of
New York, in a recent sermon, gave vent
TO some well-defin ed opinions in regard
to the anti poverty and socialistic prob
lem. He said among other things that
we may have societies and propagandas,
but any solution that leaves God Al
mighty out of the question must fail
When men were wretched and unhappy
did Christ teach them to overthrow ex-
isting institutions? Not at all. Most of
the poverty that We have is the fault of
the men that suffer. The best sort of
anti-poverty teaching would be to teach
men to work honestly and spend pru-
IDENTIFY. Teach man his relation to God,
and If he observe the laws OF the uni
verse, order and harmony and happiness
will result. This is the only solution.
The following is a description of SER
mon by successful English preacher,
which the Christian Life, of London,
finds in one of its contemporaries
was a union of theology, philosophy,
Christian experience, knowledge of hu-
man nature, quaint humor, elaborate de-
scription, metaphor, dropped as dia-
mond unobserved might fall out OF cas-
ket, facile utterance, disdain of elocu-
lion, few gestures, the face Lit up, the eye
opened wide as though the speaker saw
vision of glory, the voice trembling when
the Saviour's name was mentioned, the
sensitive frame responding to the pres
sure of emotion, the emotion finding
7ent at last in involuntary tears" We
Wonder how much the said successful
preacher is expected to pay for this SPLEEN
lid, magnificent, gorgeous, irresistible,
notice?